Houston, Texas (KTRK) – a New survey released Texas Southern University’s Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs Wednesday morning from the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs and Barbara Jordan’s Executive Masters in Public Administration program revealed tight races on top of the Texas 2022 ballot, with Republican incumbents leading the top three among potential voters. .
The video featured in the media player above is from a pre-recorded episode of this week in Texas, an in-depth political talk hosted by Tom Abrahams.
Governor Greg Abbott leads Beto O’Rourke by 49% to 42% with seven percent undecided.
In the race for deputy governor, Dan Patrick leads Democrat Mike Collier by 49% to 43%, and 8% are undecided.
And in the attorney general’s race, embattled Republican Ken Paxton led civil rights attorney Rochelle Garza by three points, 45% to 42% with 10% of those surveyed undecided.
The survey was conducted between August 11 and 29, 2022 in English and Spanish, with 2,140 respondents aged 18 or over, resulting in a confidence interval of +/- 2.1. Respondents were matched to the sampling framework on sex, age, race/ethnicity, and education and are representative of the adult Texas population.
Read more: See the full survey results
It found that “while O’Rourke and Abbott rank among potential female voters in the gubernatorial race, and Collier leads Patrick by 1% among potential female voters in the gubernatorial contest, Garza leads Paxton by 5% among potential female voters in the attorney general contest,” and that “nearly every Texas Democrat (93%) intends to vote for O’Rourke, compared to 2% of those who intend to vote for Abbott, and nearly every Texas Republican (93%) intends to vote for Abbott, compared to 2% of those intending to vote for O’Rourke.” Texas is more divided, albeit in favor of Abbott, with 47% planning to vote for Abbott and 25% for O’Rourke.”
According to the survey, nearly one in four independents have not made up their minds.
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